for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.